Do You Disregard People IRL who You Know ask AI everything?

I don't think I know anyone who does that.

Yes. It's getting to be more of a problem where it's easier not to think. I don't see this trend ending well.

I know whenever I'm at work and someone uses AI to try to answer a question where they are not qualified to validate an AI response, I don't trust anything that person says.

I know a guy who does that. He used to be smart, but it feels like those antivax who refer to other people instead of using their brain. When he begins to talk about AI results, I zone out, and I'm starting to disregard everything he says, AI or not.

This is the type of reasonable that will lead us all to an AI hellscape.

I know only one person who's completely fallen under the spell, but yes.

Though to be fair, I already disregarded most of what he said since he's a reactionary conservative who spends his days pouring right-wing podcasts into his ears at 1.5x. But at least on topics other than politics, he used to be fairly knowledgeable and trustworthy.

But since he's started telling me how impressed he is by how smart Claude is (since it tells him what he wants to hear), I've started disregarding everything he says, regardless of topic.

I've gotten my llm using friends to preface it with "the lying liar that lies says" which has in turn led to a sharp upturn in "but also the top link says" and generally helps keep me alert.

Just start asking your 5-year-old for counter arguments, as they are likely to be more valid.

A calculator gives consistently correct results.

Do you disregard people IRL who you know use a calculator for everything?

Yes. If someone tries using their Ti-84 for relation advice, for example, I'd going to disregard all their opinions. It simply isn't a tool for everything. It shouldn't be used as if it were.

Put simply, YES.

I’ve never had a calculator lie to me. Or hallucinate a number. The AI is a tool argument is getting tired. I haven’t seen it do anything useful at all that helps my day to day life.

Yes. I know a few folk who've fallen way down the rabbit hole and believe anything the lying machines spit out. When they would get on their soapbox about LLMs or write very obviously ai-generated messages, I made it clear to them that I wanted to hear _their_ thoughts or nothing at all.

For the most part, I got the latter. My mom actually backed down a bit and uses chatgpt at least more judiciously now, especially after I showed her how it makes shit up about stuff within her knowledge base and explained how it was doing that for _everything_.

Personally, it's people who get answers from some so-called "book" or "university" or "expert" that grind my gears. Like think for yourself maybe?

That's some good sarcasm.